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GERT JAN BESTEBREURTJE RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE 189 'On The GERT JAN BESTEBREURTJE RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE 189 ‘On the move’ A fine selection of Expeditions, Travel & Voyages N0. 63 Hollar. Navium variae figurae et formae, a Wenceslao Hollar. Amsterdam 1647 GERT JAN BESTEBREURTJE Rare Books Langendijk 8, 4132 AK Vianen The Netherlands Telephone +31 - (0)347 - 322548 E-mail: [email protected] Visit our Web-page at http://www.gertjanbestebreurtje.com CATALOGUE 189 ‘On the move’ A fine selection of Expeditions, Travel & Voyages Prices are quoted in euro, for clients within the European Community 9 % VAT will be added to the prices. BANTAM 1 AA, P(ierre) J(ean) B(aptiste C(harles) Robidé van der. De groote Bantamsche opstand in het midden der vorige eeuw, bewerkt naar meerdendeels onuitgegeven bescheiden uit het oud-koloniaal archief met drie officiëele documenten als bijlagen. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1881. Original printed wrappers (spine sl. dam.). 127 pp. € 95,00 € 95,00 First book edition, first published in B.K.I. - Bantam near the western end of Java was a strategically important site and formerly a major trading city with a secure harbour at the mouth of Banten River that provided a navigable passage for light craft into the island's interior. Dealing with the rebellion in Bantam including the memorials by the directors Julius Valentein Stein van Gollonesse (1734) and Willem Hendrik van Ossenberch (1761). CARIB INDIANS 2 AHLBRINCK, Willem Gerardus. Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, behelzend taal, zeden en gewoonten dezer Indianen. Amsterdam, Koninlijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1931. Original printed wrappers (spine sl. damaged). With 160 pages with drawings by E. la Rose and photographic illustrations (some in colours). XIV,555 pp. € 375,00 € 375,00 Standard reference work on the Carib Indians living near the Marowijne/Maroni River in Suriname. - Scarce. CHINA 3 (ALEXANDRE, NOëL). Conformita delle cerimonie Chinesi, colla idolatria Greca, e Romana. In conferma dell' apologia de Domenicane missionari della China. Colonia, appresso gli Heredi di Cornelio d'Egmond, 1701. Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum, autograph title to spine. 158 pp. € 650,00 First published in 1700. - 'The eminent Dominican theologian of the Sorbonne, Noel Alexandre (1639-1724), led the attack in France on the Jesuits' attitude towards the Chinese rites. He published an attack upon the Jesuit position in which he endeavours to show the similarities between the Chinese ceremonies and the idolatrous rites of the Greeks and Romans' (Lach & Van Kley III, p.430). - Age-browned, otherwise fine. Cordier, BS, col. 880; Lust 883 (French ed.); Walraven 128 (French ed.); Löwendahl, Sino-Western relations, 237 (French ed.). MAROCCO 4 AMICIS, Edmondo de. Marocco. Uit het Italiaansch vertaald door D. Lodeesen. Leiden, P. van Santen, 1877. Contemporary half cloth (sl. damaged). 315,(1) pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 First published in Italian Marocco. Milano 1876. - The author accompanied the then Italian Minister, the late Commendatore Stefano Scovasso, on his embassy to the Sultan. It is of more literary than geographical value (Playfair & Brown 1230). 5 AMSTERDAM - ENKHUIZEN. De Raad der stad Amsterdam, en die van Enkhuizen, in aanmerking genomen hebbende, de noodzakelijkheid, dat 'er eenige veranderingen worden gemaakt in de Vragt-lysten, voor de schippers van het veer, tusschen beide steden ... Zo is het, dat welgemelde regeeringen hebben goedgevonden ... op nieuw te arresteeren ... de hier navolgende Bepaalingen, voor de schippers en bestellers van het voorsz. veer, waar na dezelven zich voortaan zullen moeten reguleeren. Amsterdam, W. Wijnands, 1805. 2 broadsides with coat of arms of Amsterdam and Enkhuizen. € 275,00 Detailed alphabetical manifest of products and animals with prices, printed in three columns. - (Small hole in blank margin rep.). Vademecum for travellers in China 6 BALL, J. DYER. Things Chinese or notes connected with China. 4th edition, revised and enlarged. Hongkong, Kelly & Walsh, 1903. Original pictorial yellow cloth gilt (sl. damaged; extremities of spine sl. dam.). XII,816 pp. € 75,00 € 75,00 First published in 1892. - An alphabetically arranged vademecum for travellers, written by the formerly British Consul at Foochow. The author, born in Canton, (1847 - 1919) was considered the most knowledgeable European speaker of Cantonese of his day. The harbours and shores of England, Scotland and Wales 7 BARTLETT, William Henry. - BEATTIE, William. The ports, harbours, watering-places, and coast scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by views taken on the spot, by W.H. Bartlett; with descriptions by William Beattie. London, George Virtue, 1842. 2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary richly decorated gilt morocco, rebacked with the original gilt spines laid down (rubbed), a.e.g. With frontispiece portrait of Queen Victoria, woodcut of Blackwall and 125 steelengravings (incl. 2 frontispieces and title-pages). (4),190; (4),155 pp. € 475,00 This is the revised, much enlarged edition of the original work issued by Charles Tilt in 1836. - The plates present the harbours and shores of England, Scotland and Wales in the most dramatic, picturesque, or romantic light possible. Depictions of port cities range from stormy scenes of wreckage to calm sunny days. The romantic views by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) are among the best produced in the 19th century. The plate of the lighthouse of Berwick in volume one is shown as title- vignette in volume two. William Beattie (1793-1875) wrote the descriptions. - (Some light foxing as usual). Andres 353. Early American antislavery work 8 BENEZET, Anthony. Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants. With an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects. New edition. London, J. Phillips, 1788. Original boards (sl rubbed). With woodcut title vignette. XV,131,(1) pp. € 495,00 € 495,00 First published in Philadelphia in 1771. - Contains an inquiry into the rise and progress of the West-African slave trade, 1442 to 1771, including a general account of Guinea, the Ivory-, Gold- and Slave-Coast, Benin, Kongo and Angola and chapters on the slave-trade by the Portuguese and English, and chapters on the treatment of the slaves in the North American colonies and in the West Indies. Benezet (1713-1784), a French- born Quaker and Philadelphia resident, was one of the chief early anti-slave trade agitators in the New World, his views influenced those of English abolitionists William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. An important, very early, American antislavery work. Cardinall 377; Sabin 4689, Ragatz p.479; Hogg 1734; Work p.257; Afro-Americana 1084. BENGAL 9 BOLTS, Willem. État civil, politique et commerçant, du Bengale; ou histoire des conquêtes & de l'administration de la Compagnie Angloise dans ce pays. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. La Haye, Gosse, 1775. 2 volumes in 1. Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, original gilt spine mounted). With 2 engraved frontispieces and large folding engraved map. XL,222; 240 pp. € 375,00 First French edition; first published in English Civil, political, and commercial state of Bengal. London, 1773. - Willem Bolts (ca. 1740-1808) was a Dutch adventurer who entered the English East India Company in Bengal, and got into trouble for private trading in the name of the East India Company. The government of Benares sent him off to England as a prisoner. He sought legal action against them, but ruined himself in the proces. This vigorous exchange of views developed into a bitter controversy and played an important part in fuelling the extensive public debate that was taking place on the subject of the East India Company's operations in India. The French translation was made by Jean Nicolas Demeunier. - Pasted in is a letter in French, dated 1776, dealing with the ceding of Benares by the Rajah to the English East India Company. Cox I, p.299; Chadenat 2791. ROBINSONADE 10 BOUSSENARD, Louis. Les Robinsons de la Guyane. Paris, La Librairie Illustrée, (1892). 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt. With many wood-engravings after Férat by D. Dumont. 632 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 Part I: Le tigre blanc; Part II: Le secret de l'or, Part III: Les mysteres de la foret vierge. Louis Henri Boussenard (1847 - 1910) was a French author of adventure novels. - A nice copy., One of the most popular and best-selling Victorian travel writters 11 BRASSEY, Annie. Voyage d'une famille autour du monde a bord de son yacht Le Sunbeam .. traduit de l'Anglais par J. Butler. Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, (1878). 8vo. Original decorated red cloth gilt, a.e.g. With 6 coloured maps and 120 woodengraved plates and illustrations. XIV,360 pp. € 125,00 € 125,00 First French edition; first published in London in 1878: A voyage in the Sunbeam: our home in the Ocean for eleven months. - Voyage from England to South America, South Sea islands, Japan, China, Ceylon and Suez. One of the most popular and best- selling Victorian travel writters was Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887), who circumnavigated the globe with her wealthy husband, Thomas Brassey, in his schooner, the Sunbeam, and recorded the journey in A voyage in the Sunbeam, first published in 1878, frequently reprinted, and translated into five languages. It included an account of Lady Annie's diversion overland with her children to visit Cairo and the pyramids while the Sunbeam passed through the Suez Canal (Tuson, Western women travelling East, p.199). - Some foxing as usual otherwise fine. Robinson, Wayward women, p. 203/204; Theakstone
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